grey area

英 [ˌɡreɪ ˈeəriə]

美 [ˌɡreɪ ˈeriə]

n.  灰色地带，中间区域(界线不明、不易归类、难以界定或处理的领域或形势)

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 灰色地带，中间区域（界线不明、不易归类、难以界定或处理的领域或形势）
  an area of a subject or situation that is not clear or does not fit into a particular group and is therefore difficult to define or deal with
  1. Exactly what can be called an offensive weapon is still a grey area.
     究竟什么可称作进攻性武器仍然难以界定。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray area


• N-COUNT 灰色地带，中间区域（界线不明、责任不清、难以处理的领域或情形）
  If you refer to something as agrey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because nobody is sure how to deal with it or who is responsible for it, or it falls between two separate categories of things.
  1. At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
     目前，关于赔偿的法律规定十分不明确。
  2. ...that gray area between blue-collar laborers and white-collar professionals.
     介于蓝领工人和白领专业人士之间的中间地带

英英释义

noun

• an intermediate area
  Synonym:gray area

双语例句

• At the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area.
  目前，关于赔偿的法律规定十分不明确。
• Private publishers have long outperformed state rivals in spotting and producing best-selling manuscripts, but they operate in a legal grey area.
  长期以来，民营出版公司在发现和制作畅销书稿方面一直优于国有竞争对手，但它们的经营处在法律灰色地带。
• Many of the factories got off the ground using money raised by a handful of relatives and family friends from underground banks, which exist in a legal grey area, tolerated but not formally approved by the authorities.
  许多工厂的起步都用的是亲戚和家里的朋友从地下钱庄筹集到的钱，这种地下钱庄存在于法律上的灰色地带，它被默许存在，但没有得到官方的正式批准。
• Hopefully we can all get organized and we can get out of this grey area.
  希望我们都能组织起来，并且走出这个灰色地带。
• There remains a big grey area between bribery and political deal-making.
  贿赂与政治交易之间，存在一个巨大的灰色地带。
• There's a grey area in the game over intent or not intent," said the manager. "You can never prove it.
  关于故意或无意，是一个灰色地带，你永远证明不了什么。
• In the late 1980s, using solar energy as the main energy sources in heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is applied in environmental fields, but the mechanism and kinetics of the heterogeneous pHotocatalytic oxidation is still a grey area.
  八十年代后期，采用太阳能为主要光源的多相光催化氧化法开始应用于环保领域，但其机理尚在研究当中。
• However, the folk financing is still in the grey area between legal and illegal, and the law did not make a clear regulation about this.
  但我国现行的法律法规对民间融资尚未有明确的定位，民间融资还处于合法与非法之间的尴尬境地。
• Based on the two-way differential model forming principle and the idea of grey area, the two-way differential grey model of the long-term forecasting of groundwater regime is established in this paper.
  本文基于双向差分建模原理及灰域预测思想，建立了地下水动态长期预报的灰色双向差分模型。
• There is also a grey area here, let me say going back to what you were saying earlier.
  这里还存在着一个灰色地带，我现在来说你刚才所说的话题。